Or 2R1B1B, if you are that way inclined. This will follow the same general practices as the Two Rooms and a Boom Practice Game that I ran last year, but this time around I'm using a slightly more complicated roleset, specifically:

Blue TeamPresidentDoctorPresident's DaughterNurse(Vanilla) Blue Team members as necessary

Red TeamBomberEngineerMartyrTinker(Vanilla) Red Team members as necessary

Grey (unaligned)SniperTargetDecoyGambler (if necessary)

Roles from the previous game work the same here. At the end of the game, in addition to the Gambler making their call as to who won, the Sniper must name who they will shoot. If they successfully hit the Target, then the Sniper wins and the Target and Decoy both lose. If the Sniper does not hit the Target, the Sniper and Decoy both lose and the Target wins; and if the Sniper hits the Decoy, the Decoy and Target both win. This does not affect whether the Blue or Red team wins (in particular, shooting the President does not cause the Blue team to lose, go figure).

Additionally, one role other than Sniper/Target/Decoy will be buried, prior to roles being distributed. If one of the key roles is the buried one, then the appropriate back-up role will take their place. For example, if the President is the buried role, then the President's Daughter is considered to be the President for all intents and purposes - she must meet with the Doctor and not end up in the same room as the Bomber in order for the Blue team to win. If a key role is not buried, then its backup role is essentially a vanilla member of their team. The buried role is not revealed during the game.

1. There are two main factions – the Red and Blue teams. Players may be on one or the other team, or they may be aligned with neither.

2. One member of the Blue team is the President, and one member of the Red team is the Bomber. If the President is alive at the end of the game, all members of the Blue team win. If the Bomber successfully kills the President by being in the same room at the end of the game, all members of the Red team win. Players not on either team will have their own win conditions as described by their role and they may win independently of either team.

3. There are also two rooms, represented here by separate forum threads. Each player is randomly allocated a role and a starting room, and there is no connection between the two. Players in the same room have various means of communicating with each other (described below), but players in different rooms cannot communicate.

4. Each round, the players in each room will elect a Leader. At the end of the round, the Leader will nominate a specified number of people in that room as "hostages". The hostages will swap rooms, and the next round will begin.

5. The game ends after the last hostage exchange. At that point, roles are revealed and winners determined.

Forum Rules:

Spoiler:

6. Don’t talk about the game anywhere except in the current room that you are located, or in an appropriately labelled spoiler in the discussion thread.

7. To initiate an action, clearly state it in bold, on a new line. For example:Offer card share with ConMan

8. You may publically reveal your card colour or role (aka "card"). To do so, post a message as follows:Public colour reveal: I am Red orPublic reveal: I am the Bomber

9. You may privately communicate with another player (in the same room) at any time. To do so, post a message in the thread as follows:Whisper ConManfollowed by a spoiler containing the text of your message.

10. You may privately reveal your colour or role to another player (in the same room) at any time. To do so, post a message in the thread as follows:Private colour reveal to ConMan orPrivate reveal to ConManfollowed by a spoiler containing your colour/role in bold.

11. You may propose a two-way private colour or role reveal (aka "card share") with another player (in the same room). To do so, post a message in the thread as follows:Offer colour share with ConManOffer card share with ConMan

You may accept a share offer by posting in the thread as follows:Accept card share with ConManfollowed by a spoiler containing your colour/role in bold. They must respond to that as soon as possible with a spoiler addressed to you containing their own colour/role. If you have sent or received the first message in a share, you cannot participate in another share until the second message has been sent (this is in case the share triggers an effect that may change your ability or desire to participate in other shares).

12. Any share or reveal must be accurate - you cannot lie in bolded type.

13. If your current room has no Leader, you may immediately appoint another player (not yourself) by posting:Appoint ConMan as Leader

14. If you are the Leader of the room, you may abdicate to another player by posting:Abdicate Leader to ConManIf your proposed replacement accepts, they immediately become Leader and they may not abdicate Leadership back to you in the same round.

15. Any player may propose a change of Leadership by posting:Vote ConMan as LeaderIf more than half the players in the room vote for the same player, that player immediately becomes Leader. You may vote for yourself.

16. You may withdraw an unaccepted share offer or a vote at any time by posting an appropriate bolded message in the thread.

17. When the timer for the current round ends, you may not post in the thread with one exception – the Leader of each room must post a spoiler with the list of hostages to be exchanged – the Leader may not nominate themselves as a hostage. New forum threads will be created for the two rooms and everyone will be notified of which one they are now in, at which point the new round begins. Note that the Leader stays the same between rounds.

18. If, by some chance, a room has no Leader at the end of the round, one will be randomly selected by the mod.

19. This game will be played like a Turbo. Round end times are final (no extensions), replacements will be made between rounds as necessary.

20. There will be five rounds, with the first running for 5 days and decreasing until the final round which lasts for 1 day. A full list of round lengths and number of hostages to exchange will be posted at game start.

Roles:

Spoiler:

The following roles will definitely be in the game:

You are the Sniper. Your card is Grey. At the end of the game, before roles are revealed, you must name a person to shoot (they do not have to be in the same room as you). If you name the Target, you win.

You are the Target. Your card is Grey. If the Sniper targets you, you lose. Otherwise, you win.

You are the Decoy. Your card is Grey. If the Sniper targets you, you win.

The following roles will also definitely be in the game, but may be buried (i.e. not assigned to a player):

You are the President. You are on the Blue Team, and you win if the President (that's you) is alive at the end of the game. You die (and your team loses) if:

You fail to card share with the Doctor by the end of the game.

The Bomber has card shared with the Engineer, and is in the same room as you at the end of the game.

You are the Doctor. You are on the Blue Team, and you win if the President is alive at the end of the game. The President dies (and your team loses) if:

You fail to card share with the President by the end of the game.

The Bomber has card shared with the Engineer, and is in the same room as the President at the end of the game.

You are the Bomber. You are on the Red Team, who win if your bomb kills the President. If you card share with the Engineer, then at the end of the game your bomb goes off and kills everyone in the same room. Try to make sure that includes the President.

You are the Engineer. You are on the Red Team, who win if the Bomber kills the President. If you card share with the Bomber, then at the end of the game their bomb goes off and kills everyone in the same room as them, hopefully including the President.

You are the President's Daughter. You are on the Blue Team, and win if the President is alive at the end of the game. The President dies (and your team loses) if:

The Doctor fails to card share with the President by the end of the game.

The Bomber has card shared with the Engineer, and is in the same room as the President at the end of the game.

If the President is the buried card, you are the President.

You are the Nurse. You are on the Blue Team, and win if the President is alive at the end of the game. The President dies (and your team loses) if:

The Doctor fails to card share with the President by the end of the game.

The Bomber has card shared with the Engineer, and is in the same room as the President at the end of the game.

If the Doctor is the buried card, you are the Doctor.

You are the Martyr. You are on the Red Team, and win if the Bomber kills the President. If the Bomber and the Engineer card share, then at the end of the game the bomb goes off and kills everyone in the same room as the Bomber, hopefully including the President.

If the Bomber is the buried card, you are the Bomber.

You are the Tinker. You are on the Red Team, and win if the Bomber kills the President. If the Bomber and the Engineer card share, then at the end of the game the bomb goes off and kills everyone in the same room as the Bomber, hopefully including the President.

If the Engineer is the buried card, you are the Engineer.

The following roles will be added to the game as needed to make up numbers (in pairs of Blue/Red Team, plus the Gambler if an odd number of extra cards is required), and may be buried:

You are on the Blue Team. You win if the President is alive at the end of the game. The President dies (and your team loses) if:

The Doctor fails to card share with the President by the end of the game.

The Bomber has card shared with the Engineer, and is in the same room as the President at the end of the game.

You are Red Team. You win if the Bomber kills the President. If the Bomber and the Engineer card share, then at the end of the game the bomb goes off and kills everyone in the same room as the Bomber, hopefully including the President.

You are the Gambler, and your card is Grey. At the end of the game, before any other results are revealed, you will be asked to guess whether the Blue Team, Red Team, or neither has won. If you are correct, then you win.

Clarifications on how the roles work:

Spoiler:

If the Doctor and President card share, and the Bomber and Engineer card share, then at the end of the game if the Bomber and President are in the same room the Red Team wins, otherwise the Blue Team wins.

If the Bomber and Engineer don't card share, then if the Doctor and President card share the Blue Team wins, otherwise neither team wins.

If the Doctor and President don't card share, then if the Bomber and Engineer card share and the Bomber is in the same room as the President at the end of the game, the Red Team wins, otherwise neither team wins.

For all of the above interactions, if one of the relevant card is buried then its back-up role takes its place. If the card is not buried, then the back-up role is equivalent to a vanilla member of that team - for example, if the President card is buried, then the President's Daughter takes the place of the President in the above interactions, but the Nurse, Martyr and Tinker have no special abilities.

The Grey roles win and lose independently of the Blue and Red Teams. So the maximum number of winners occurs when either Red or Blue Team succeeds, the Gambler correctly guesses, and the Sniper hits the Decoy (causing both the Target and the Decoy to win). The minimum number of winners is 1, occuring when both Blue and Red Teams fail, the Gambler guesses incorrectly, and the Sniper fails to hit the Decoy (so either the Sniper or the Target wins).

They're kind of covered in the previous game, but I'll be using one of the currently reserved posts to put up a proper list of rules and roles and how everything interacts.

EDIT: The Doctor and Engineer roles were listed in the room threads, but not the main thread. I will still be posting the full list of everything soon. Also, based on feedback from the previous game, this time around there will be no PMs. Instead, all non-public actions will be placed in spoilers, and players will be trusted to not look at spoilers not addressed to them.

The game requires a minimum of 11 players, but can go up to any number.

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Lokiben wrote:I wasn't aware the game wouldn't be starting for so long. I will be abroad from the 25th to the 4th, and can't play if the game overlaps.

Ah, that will be a bit difficult then. Even starting now would probably be cutting things a bit close then. I still need to hold off, so I'll see when I can start the game (if we don't get the sign-ups, it won't be a problem anyway!)

Reserves:1. jimbobmacdoodle2. Lokiben3. emlightened (Move up to sign-ups if it starts after April 9th)

I'm going on holiday at the start of April (2nd), but I didn't think it would be an issue until I heard about Mod Madness.

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I'm sorry to see this didn't work out. I am hosting my own take on Two Rooms and a Boom offsite, but the catch is that the game takes place entirely through Quick Topics, and doesn't necessarily have to be based in a single forum. If I hear enough interest, I can post another OP here, that I can ensure is identical to the one on the ToS Forums at all times, and welcome xkcd forumers to play as well.

I'm finally back, after being back and then gone again thanks to a stomach bug. I'm not sure whether to reset sign-ups, or the thread, or just withdraw and collect my thoughts and try again later. Any preferences?

Probably best to start around or after then, because that's when I come back from holiday too.

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Sorry, the game will not be running just yet, and when I'm ready for it I'll set up a fresh sign-up list.

As to your question:

Mikemk wrote:Clarification request:When card sharing, are you allowed to lie?

As stated in rule 12, you cannot lie in bold type, which includes reveals and shares. The terms refer to the fact that when playing in real life you have actual cards that you literally reveal and/or swap, so it's the difference between just saying "I'm the President" and showing someone that you have the President card.